Marble Quarrying Looks As Cool As You Always Imagined [Arch Daily] When I was in high school, we used to swimming at an abandoned marble quarry. One time, we dared one of the guys to dive off the hundred foot cliff at the quarry’s edge; he jumped, passed out from terror halfway down (his scream abruptly ended and he went conspicuously limp) and hit the water face-first. He was never really the same after that.